Cancer statistics, 2016
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...for leukemia and from 57% to 74% for brain and other nervous system tumors.(8)...
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...each down about 50% as a result of improvements in early detection and treatment.(8,33,52,53) Lung cancer death rates...
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...registries combined) among both men and women for some leukemia subtypes and for cancers of the tongue, tonsil, small intestine, liver, pancreas, kidney, renal pelvis, and thyroid.(8) In addition, incidence rates increased in men for melanoma; myeloma; and cancers of the breast, testis, and oropharynx....
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...Joinpoint is a tool used to describe and quantify trends by fitting observed rates to lines connected at “joinpoints” where trends change in direction or magnitude.(8,26) The overall incidence rate in women has remained stable since 1998, but has declined in men by 3....
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...Cancers of the brain and other nervous system are the second most common cancer type (26%), followed by soft tissue sarcomas (7%, almost one-half of which are rhabdomyosarcoma), neuroblastoma (6%), non-Hodgkin lymphomas, including Burkitt lymphoma (6%), renal (Wilms) tumors (5%), and Hodgkin lymphomas (3%).(8) Cancers in adolescents (aged 15 to 19 years) differ somewhat from those in children in terms of type and distribution....
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